JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Overview

Course objectives:

• To learn about the principles of alloy design, phase diagram and strengthening mechanisms in different metals and alloys.
• To study the fundamental aspects of heat treatment and its influence on properties and applications
• To obtain knowledge about the physical metallurgy of specific and important engineering materials such as ferrous and non-ferrous alloys

Course Outcomes

By completing this course the student will have:

• The ability to identify the concepts of alloy design, phase diagrams and strengthening mechanisms and apply them to materials systems
• The knowledge of heat treatment and the resulting microstructure in materials
• The knowledge of physical metallurgical aspects of important engineering alloys

UNIT - I

Phase diagrams: binary and ternary, principles of alloying, Hume-Rothery rules. Strengthening mechanisms, solid solution, work hardening, precipitation hardening, dispersion strengthening.

UNIT - II

Iron carbon diagram, isothermal, and continuous cooling transformation diagrams; influence of alloying elements on transformation characteristics.

UNIT - III

Heat treatment - annealing, normalizing, hardening and tempering of steels, hardenability

UNIT - IV

Introduction to important ferrous alloys, stainless steels, special steels, cast irons, aluminium alloys.

UNIT - V

Titanium alloys, copper base alloys. Superalloys, shape memory alloys – classification, heat treatment, properties and applications.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Physical Metallurgy: Principles and Practice, V. Raghavan, PHI Learning, Delhi, 2008.
• 2. Physical Metallurgy Principles, R. Abbaschian, R. E. Reed-Hill, Cengage Learning, 2009

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Physical Metallurgy Vols. I, II, III, R.W. Cahn and P. Haasen, North Holland, 1996.
• 2. Light Metals, I.J. Polmear, Elsevier, 2005 R18 B.TECH MME